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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 6h

Feedback is a relationship. Ghost the people who gave it, and they will stop giving it. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Naming your AI feature "Intelligence" is a trap. It sets a high bar that your model may or may not deliver #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Juggling five products and losing your mind? Stop holding it all in your head. Your brain is for thinking, not storage. Offload the context, and the overwhelm drops with it. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The best predictor of a great PM isn't skill. It's will. The drive to chase down a problem and drag it through the org's inertia beats any framework you can memorize. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A decision made verbally in a meeting is a decision that didn't happen. After every important meeting, send the meeting notes: "Here's what we agreed" If not, by next week, three people will remember it three different ways. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People overcomplicate writing specs for AI agents. Break it down to: What is needed to do the task? What tools, what data, what memory? An agent is just a software that acts on input. Spec it like one. #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

AI collapsed the cost of building. It didn't touch the cost of building the wrong thing. The faster everyone ships, the more a PM who actually validates is worth. #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Who Owns Strategy? Product Manager, until someone above them overrides it on a gut feeling.

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stoic mindset: "How can I control my reaction to this difficult person?" Confucian mindset: "How can I fulfill my role and act with kindness toward this person?"

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Become the kind of person your relationships call you to be - Confucius

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Contrary take: Product Managers, you don't have to code. You do have to stop being technically dependent. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cross-functional input in discovery? Great. Cross-functional accountability? Disaster. Everyone should have a voice in shaping the solution. Only one person should own the call.

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A polished AI generated mockup tricks the team into skipping the hard UX thinking underneath it. Looks finished ≠ is right. Judge the reasoning, not the render. #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Underrated AI use for PMs: the technical jargon translator. Drop the jargon from an eng meeting into Claude and ask for the ELI5. You stop nodding along to terms you don't know and start actually following the conversation. Comprehension compounds. #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Occam’s razor trims away unnecessary assumptions when analyzing reality, while Chekhov’s gun trims away unnecessary details when creating fictional worlds.

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Before you hire someone to do the repetitive operational work, ask if the work should even exist. Sometimes the cheapest new hire is an automated workflow, not a headcount. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Start with a minimal direct prompt and only move up to higher levels of structure when the task's complexity, risk, or need for reusable tool control justifies the extra effort. arxiv.org/html/2609....

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The best defense against politics isn't playing the game better. It's building something undeniable. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

PMs: Corralling chaos is not a distraction to your work Most days, it IS the job. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everything starting with compliance, risk of hallucinations and others you mentioned

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not every B2B customer wants AI in their product. Some actively resent it. #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Before reacting to anything, pause and ask whether what's troubling you is a fact about the world or a judgment you've added to a fact about the world - Epictetus

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Watched a PM get asked about a line in their own roadmap doc and... not know the answer. "Maybe that's not applicable, not sure why I wrote that." You didn't write it. AI did. You just didn't read it before presenting. Are you seeing a lot of AI slop in your line of work?

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When my distributed eng team goes on holiday, I feel two things at once: Relief - finally, no back-and-forth midnight Slack messages Dread - what if prod breaks

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most workflows should just stay deterministic. AI where the fuzziness adds value. Plain old code everywhere else. #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In moments of high stress — an outage, a tense talk, a project sliding — jumping to conclusions causes compounding mistakes. Taking thirty seconds to suspend judgment prevents "premature closure," ensuring your decisions are grounded in reality rather than panicked assumptions.

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Strip product management down and it's three questions about anything you might build: 1️⃣ Should we? 2️⃣ Why? 3️⃣ Why now? #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

PMs: Suppose every decision is made above your team and handed down. You're not managing product. You're managing a backlog. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Don't pass raw user feedback straight to your engineers. "This is garbage..." helps no one Your job is to translate venting into actionable insight. Protecting the team's morale is part of managing the product. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

AI is brilliant at augmenting a workflow you understand and useless as a solution hunting for a problem. Start with the problem. Always. #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Years of repetitive practice produces genuine understanding. You couldn't fake it

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Write the first draft yourself, then let AI refine it. Reverse that order, and you never build the underlying judgment; it is too convenient to accept whatever the model hands you. Create from scratch, then polish. #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Quality in the final product is inseparable from the quality of attention sustained throughout every repetitive, unglamorous step leading to it

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Every skill you outsource to AI is a muscle you stop training. If you don't know how to do the work, you cannot innovate. Do some of the "routine" thinking by hand. On purpose. #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The recent debate is about whether foldable phones are "useful" Wrong lens A big chunk of premium purchases is driven by status and delight, not utility Sometimes the job to be done is "feel something when I pull this out of my pocket" That's a real JTBD. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Validate before you build" is great advice until the feature comes straight from leadership. You don't always get to run discovery. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Same AI tools. Wildly different results. Some teams 10x their output; others barely notice it's there. Which camp is your team in? #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Recent discussions: AI-generated requirements are difficult to read and comprehend A human PM writing for a specific eng team calibrates language, depth, and assumed context to that audience. AI defaults to a generic style that doesn't account for where a team is. #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Theory without execution scars is a beautiful deck that ships nothing. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

3️⃣ Offload, don't repeat Save long tool/MCP outputs to disk/memory and pass summaries, not raw dumps, back into context 4️⃣ Meta-prompting Tell the model how to approach the task rather than only what to do, so it can self-correct as context grows. 3/3

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

1️⃣ Fresh sessions per task The simplest fix; don't let one long-running session accumulate cross-task noise. 2️⃣ Periodic re-anchoring reminders Re-stating the current objective partway through a long transcript counteracts drift better than most people expect. 2/3

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Context rot isn't running out of tokens. It's poisoning (hallucinations echoed as fact), distraction (noise crowding signal), and lost-in-the-middle bias. Bigger context windows won't fix it. Option to fix context rot 🧵👇 1/3

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In the AI era, "Can you explain your own reasoning without AI?" is becoming the real skills test. #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"AI slop" is polished, confident, and quietly wrong. #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Motivation sets the destination; habit is the vehicle that will actually gets you there.

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In the AI era, the only defensible layer is proprietary data, workflows, and the system of record that users are locked into. The holistic system is the product, and AI is a capability within it #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Everyone can be a PM” sounds great until conflicts arise Customer needs vs. revenue. Speed vs. quality. Strategy vs. stakeholder pressure. PM isn’t about having opinions. It’s about making the trade-off when every option has a cost. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Teaching humans is hard; teaching AI is harder #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nobody remembers what your badge said. They remember what you shipped. #ProductManagement

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